Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News, mostly sunny, fifty two degrees at eleven o'clock on
Speaker 2: this Thursday morning. I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. Hurricane Milton has moved on from Florida,
Speaker 2: and now the cleanup begins. At least four people are
Speaker 2: dead and millions are left without power. Cruiser using trucks
Speaker 2: and boats to get through floodwaters and rescue stranded Floridians.
Speaker 3: This is a special report from ABC News Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 3: I'm Sherry Preston. The storm barreled into the Atlantic after
Speaker 3: plowing across Florida, whipping up a barrage of tornadoes that
Speaker 3: led to four deaths and more than three million power outages.
Speaker 3: With more on that. ABC's even pilgrims in Orlando.
Speaker 4: We saw transformers blowing less and right, and there's a
Speaker 4: lot of power out in the state of Florida. Some
Speaker 4: three point two million houses holds are waking up without power.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: Tampa Electric saying seventy percent of their customers don't have
Speaker 4: power right now.
Speaker 3: Florida Governor Roun Dessentis says one of the big focuses
Speaker 3: now is also on gas.
Speaker 6: Ensuring that fuel is flowing. Hopefully we get our gas
Speaker 6: stations in big box stores and everything opened very quickly.
Speaker 6: I'd imagine that that will likely happen and just get
Speaker 6: people back on their feet.
Speaker 3: Milton madeland Fall about eight thirty eastern last night and
Speaker 3: see us t Key south of Tampa. The storm surge
Speaker 3: predicted to be as high as fifteen feet in Tampa
Speaker 3: at one point, didn't get nearly that high. This is ABC.
Speaker 2: News and we will continue to follow this and bring
Speaker 2: you the very latest throughout the day. Take us with
Speaker 2: you on the go with the iHeartRadio app. A cyber
Speaker 2: attack targets Mass State employees. The state says a fake
Speaker 2: website was created to look just like the state's portal
Speaker 2: where employees entered their work hours and attendance basically time cards. Well,
Speaker 2: some employees were fooled and use the fake site, entering
Speaker 2: their user names and passwords. This allowed scammers to harvest
Speaker 2: that information to potentially access the employee's legitimate accounts, gaining
Speaker 2: access to their direct deposit information. The state says that
Speaker 2: the fake website has been taken down. Those impacted have
Speaker 2: been notified and says there is no evidence that the
Speaker 2: state's legitimate work and attendance website was ever compromised. Inflation
Speaker 2: still appears to be on the downswing, new data showing
Speaker 2: the consumer price index rose only slightly last month.
Speaker 7: The consumer price index is up just two tenths of
Speaker 7: a percent, the same increase for August and July, which
Speaker 7: is good news for consumers hoping to see inflation continue
Speaker 7: to slow. Over the last year. The Bureau of Labor
Speaker 7: Statistics reports the cost of all items rose about two
Speaker 7: point four percent, far less than previous year price increases.
Speaker 7: The biggest September price jumps were four tenths of a
Speaker 7: percent for food. Energy prices fell nearly two percent.
Speaker 2: And that's ABC's and d Field reporting. Their other federal
Speaker 2: data released today, Those shows you jobless claims rose to
Speaker 2: their highest level in a year last week. Mostly sunny
Speaker 2: skies today a little cooler, though we'll reach a high
Speaker 2: of just fifty nine degrees, clear and chili Tonight, cooling
Speaker 2: off to about forty six in the city, upper thirties
Speaker 2: in the cool western suburbs. Friday warmer, a high of
Speaker 2: sixty six degrees Tomorrow, Mostly sunny, skies, and Saturday we
Speaker 2: warm up to seventy one degrees, mostly sunny, a little
Speaker 2: bit of a breeze as well, but there's a turnaround
Speaker 2: come Sunday. We could see a shower or two in
Speaker 2: the forecast, highs only reaching about sixty degrees and unfortunately
Speaker 2: more clouds in sunshine. Right now, we're up to fifty
Speaker 2: two degrees right now in the city. It's eleven oh five.
Speaker 2: Salvation Army volunteers from the Northeast are on scene in
Speaker 2: Florida trying to help the Sunshine State recover after Hurricane
Speaker 2: Milton's vicious landfall. Last night. WBZ TV's Julie McDonald reports.
Speaker 5: We're still dealing with survivors from ian let Alone, Heleene
Speaker 5: let Alone, Milton, So it's an ongoing process.
Speaker 1: During times of disaster, one hundred percent of designated donations
Speaker 1: to the Salvation Army are used for immediate response and
Speaker 1: long term efforts. These teams are out straight before they
Speaker 1: even return to Florida.
Speaker 8: Every Salvation Army truck that goes out has about one
Speaker 8: thousand meals for lunch, they have one thousand meals for dinner,
Speaker 8: and we're coming back with empty trucks.
Speaker 1: More volunteers will leave New England this weekend answering the
Speaker 1: call to deliver help and hope.
Speaker 2: MIMA has deployed personnel to Virginia and the Carolinas to
Speaker 2: help with last week's Hurricane Helene, and has offered to
Speaker 2: send help to Florida in the wake of Milton. Autumn
Speaker 2: leafs are as good as gold for businesses around New England.
Speaker 5: And paid is exactly the status of New England when
Speaker 5: it comes to leaf peeping season and tourists coming to
Speaker 5: our region from all over the country. The Nation Park
Speaker 5: Service saying New England generates eight billion dollars during the
Speaker 5: autumn months from foliage tourism, people spending on everything from retail, hotels,
Speaker 5: restaurants and more. And that money is coming from four
Speaker 5: million people who descend upon New England specifically to visit
Speaker 5: for fall foliage. It'll be peak leaf peeping season on
Speaker 5: October twenty seventh and Greater Boston. We're in the midst
Speaker 5: of this annual autumn spectacular. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's.
Speaker 2: News Radio Saturday, it would be a great day for
Speaker 2: leaf peeping once again. His reaching a seventy one decrease
Speaker 2: Wildlife experts say global animal populations have shrunk dramatically in
Speaker 2: the past fifty years. CBS's Vickie Barker has more.
Speaker 8: Among the species affected elephants and tropical fars and hawks,
Speaker 8: bill turtles off Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the Barrier
Speaker 8: Reef itself. The Worldwide Fund for Nature says habitat destruction
Speaker 8: is pushing the Amazon Rainforest to the brink of collapse,
Speaker 8: and the loss of that carbon sucking machine would accelerate
Speaker 8: global warming. Vicki Barker, CBS News, London.
Speaker 2: Policymakers in New England and Canada are trying to navigate
Speaker 2: tricky transitions to clean energy. Now, some advocates are pushing
Speaker 2: the two sides to partner up. New England has plenty
Speaker 2: of wind energy and Canada specializes in hydropower well. Some
Speaker 2: experts say that you sides should pull all their resources together.
Speaker 2: Not only would it be cost effective, but it would
Speaker 2: also safeguard against energy shortages. Governor Healey and other leaders
Speaker 2: from both sides of the border have signaled interests in
Speaker 2: such a partnership. You are now in the loop for
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